US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 14 for "Augmenting climate impact and hazard models" (British, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,206, issued on July 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Augmenting climate impact and hazard models" was invented by Blair Nicholas Victor Edwards (Manchester, Great Britain), Paolo Fraccaro (Warrington, Great Britain), Anne Jones (Rainford, Great Britain) and Komminist Weldemariam (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Concepts are proposed for augmenting a plurality of climate impact and hazard models. In particular, the plurality of climate impact and hazard models are modified/altered based on a user-specified requirement (i.e., a specified geographical location, temporal location or hazard ...